{"id":166,"date":"2004-04-23T23:45:40","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T23:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesots.com\/wordpress\/?p=0"},"modified":"2013-01-20T16:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T16:28:02","slug":"the-times-they-are-a-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/166","title":{"rendered":"The Times, They Are A-Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, the times, they a-changed a while ago now. Its the weather that&#8217;s a-changing at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>This evening, after going to Ristorante Etna for Jon-Man&#8217;s leaving meal (where I had the best steak I&#8217;ve had for ages), we went down to The Glasshouse and sat round a table outside and had a few drinks, while not feeling too cold. It&#8217;s the first day this year when it&#8217;s really been warm enough to do that. It kind of reminded me of being in Kenya and going to Gipsy, although when I was there it reminded me of Coventry. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesots.com\/site\/home.php?story=18#story18\">this entry<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon I went to the guitar shop where I&#8217;d bought my acoustic guitar and tried to claim my free set of strings which they&#8217;d promised I could have after six and twelve months of owning the guitar. But when I got there they told me the type of strings I use are too expensive so I couldn&#8217;t have them for free, even though it&#8217;s the kind of strings I got with the guitar originally. So I had a good argument with them for a few minutes but eventually settled with getting \u00a37.50 off, which I suppose is okay.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I think I&#8217;ll go for a cycle, unless the weather a-changes again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, the times, they a-changed a while ago now. Its the weather that&#8217;s a-changing at the moment. This evening, after going to Ristorante Etna for Jon-Man&#8217;s leaving meal (where I had the best steak I&#8217;ve had for ages), we went down to The Glasshouse and sat round a table outside and had a few drinks, &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/166\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}